What will I learn from this course?

Nature Creativity

Requirements

Beauty Of Nature

Who is the target audience?

Who are interest in Creativity

Description

This course is an introduction to problems about creativity as it pervades human experience and behavior. Questions about imagination and innovation are studied in relation to the history of philosophy as well as more recent work in philosophy, affective psychology, cognitive studies, and art theory. Readings and guidance are aligned with the student's focus of interest.

About Tutor

Irving Singer was an American professor of philosophy who was on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 55 years and wrote over 20 books.

Irving Singer, a professor emeritus of philosophy at MITSinger retired from MIT in 2013, having served on the MIT faculty in the Department of Philosophy and Linguistics (and its forerunners) since 1958.Singer enjoyed teaching immensely, appreciating it as integral to his process of developing ideas that would inform his writing projects.Singer was awarded a Fulbright research scholar grant (1955-56, Paris), a Guggenheim fellowship (1965-66), and a Rockefeller Foundation grant (1970, London).He was a fellow of Villa I Tatti, Harvard's center for Italian Renaissance studies in Florence, for two years, from 1965 to 1967.